Vermeer

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Vermeer, Jan Also known as Jan van der Meer. 1632-1675. Dutch painter noted for his interior genre scenes, in which he used to great effect his mastery of lighting and color. His works include The Lacemaker (c. 1664).

Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany published a study in December that projected a rise of 0. 75m to 1. 9m by 2100.

It was only when the perpetrator, Han van Meegeren, was arrested near the end of the Second World War for selling another "Vermeer" to top-ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring that he confessed to having forged what many considered a masterpiece.

To the historian, even to the regular gallery visitor who tries to avoid the vagaries of fashion, it is all rather irritating: A recent editorial in The Burlington Magazine deplored the fact that certain painters, such as Vermeer and Louis Le Nain, had been rediscovered at the 'wrong' time, by critics who envisaged them as pioneers in the realist battles being waged in mid-nineteenth century France.